Machine for sewing hooks and eyes on cards.



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MACHINE FOB SEWING HOOKS AND EYES 0N CARDS.

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MACHINE FOR SEWING Hooks Arno EYES 0N CARDS.

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MACHINE FOB SEWIN'G HOOKS AND EYES 0N CARDS.

(Application filed Oct. 10, 1901.)

'llllllul 90 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE ROVVBOTTOM, OE VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO AMER- ICAN PIN COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR SEWING HOOKS AND EYES ON CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,519, dated October 7, 1902.

Original application lcd May l., 1901, Serial No.'58,289. Divided and this application filed October 10, 1901. Serial No. 78,162. (No model.)

T all whom t may CON/067%.' cated on the two sides of the machine. All o Be it known that I, GEORGE ROWBOTTOM, the parts are supported on a suitable bed,

a citizen of the United States. residing at Va-v table, or frame 1, which is provided with a terbury, in the county of New Haven and central bracket 2 for the needle-bar mechan- 5 State of Connecticut, have invented certain ism on a standard 3. In the center of the new and useful Improvements in Machines bed l is arranged a table 9, on which the 53 for Fastening Hooks and Eyes on Cards, of cards are fed as the sewing is effected. The which the following is a specification. main driving-shaft 5, carrying the driving- This invention relates to improvements in pulley 6, with clutch 7, is journaled in suitro card-feeding mechanism for hook-and-eyeable bearings in the machine-frame.

fastening machines, t-he present invention be- The card-feeding mechanism comprises a 6o ing a division of my application, Serial No. track or wav forreceiving the cards, defined 58,289, led May 1, 1970i. In that application by guides 67-on the table 9, and feed-rolls 70 is disclosed a machine for fastening hooks 7l, arrangedin two series, respectively, below and eyes on cards and comprising means for and above said track and engaging frictionfeeding the hooks and eyes to the card, means ally with the cards. The upper feed-rolls are for intermittently feeding the cards in proper Vprovided with adjustable spring-tension deposition to receive the hooks and eyes, and vices 68. The lower rolls are connected means for sewing the hooks and eyes on the by gears with a shaft 76, carryingaratchetzo cards. The present application relates only wheel 77, which is engaged by a pawl 78 on to the card-feeding means, and only so much an arm or Jlever 79, to which is pivoted one 7o of the other mechanism is herein included as end of a bar 80, whoseV other end is forked is necessary to an understanding of this inand slides over a hub 81 on the shaft 5. A vention. cam 85 onfthis shaft 5 engages a roll 82 on 25 The object of the present invention is to the bar 80, and aspring 86 is arranged to press provide for an eXtra feed of the cards when this roll toward the cam, said spring being 75 the operation is passing from one card to the connected at one end to the standard 3 and next, this extra feed being necessary on acat the other end to a link 83, pivoted to a count of the spaces at the ends of the cards bell-crank 66, which is also pivoted on stand- 30 and between the cards. A ard 3 and engages a pin Shi on the bar 80.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is Cam S5 has two projecting portions, which to a horizontal section on the line a a in Fig.' 2. cause the bar S0 to reciprocate twice in each of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. rotation of shaft 5, and there are consequently 2 is a vertical section on the line b l) in Fig. two feeding movements of the feed-rolls for 35 l. Figs. 3 and e are partial elevations of the each such rotation, for each such rotation refeed-operating mechanism in two different sults in the delivery of a single pair of hooks 85 positions. and eyes on each side of the card, and as each The hook and eye feeding and gripper eye and hook has two sewing-eyes there must mechanisms havebeen omitted from the drawbe twice as many stitch-es and twice as many 4o ings, as they do notI relate to the present inn feedingmovements asthere are pairs of hooks vention, and only so much ofthe other mechand eyes in each row. The article-fastening 9o anism of the machine is shown as cooperates means therefore acts to fasten the articles directly with the card-feeding mechanism (pairs of hooks and eyes) on the cards between and is necessary to an understanding thereof. actions of the card-feeding means. At iuter-. 45 The machineis made to work in duplicatevals, owing to the filling of one card and the that is, to simultaneously attach the pairs of passage to the next, it is desirable to make hooks and eyes in two rows on the cards-and an eXtra feed without stitching, and to this the machine itself is therefore also duplicate, end I provide a stop-disk 8S on a stud-shaft each operative part being, in general, dupli- 215, iixed on a frame-block 216 and carrying also a ratchet-Wheel 21S, engaged by a pawl 219 on the reciprocating feed-bar 80, so that said stop-disk is turned in accordance With the feed of the cards. This stop-disk is provided With notches S9 therein, adapted to receive a lug 90 on the bar 80. Said lug normally rests against the periphery of said stopdisk, and thereby limits the back stroke of the bar 80, so that only a limited feed is effected, sufficient to carry the card the distance from one sewing-eye to the next; but in each semirevolution of disk S8, corresponding to the length of a card, a notch S9 permits a greater back movement of the feedbar 80, and the next action of the cam S5 will cause a correspondingly greater forward stroke and give an extra feed.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. In a machine for fastening articles on cards, a card-feeding means comprising feedrolls, ratchet mechanism operating same, a reciprocating bar operating said ratchet mechanism, a stop device controlling the movement of said bar, and provided with a notch permitting at intervals a longer feed operation of said bar, ratchet-wheel and rolls.

2. In a machine for fastening articles on cards, the combination of the feed rolls, ratchet-wheel connected thereto, bar carrying a pawl engaging said Wheel, a cam operating said bar, a spring for moving said bar toward the cam, and a stop-disk engaging with said bar to limit its movement toward the cam and connected to be rotated by the reci procation of said bar by a paWl-and-ratchet connection and provided with a notch permitting at intervals alonger operation of said bar to give an eXtra feed.

3. In a machine for fastening hooks and eyes on cards, an intermittently-acting cardfeeding means provided With controlling devices Whereby' an extra feeding motion is given at the end of every card, in combination With fastening means for fastening articles on the card between feeding actions of the card-feeding means.

GEORGE ROVVBOTTOM.

\Vitnesses:

HUGH A. PENDLEBURY, W. R. WILLETT. 

